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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of classical and contemporary philosophical perspectives on the human mind. Topics may include materialistic vs. nonmaterialistic conceptions of thought and consciousness; relation between mind and brain, body, behavior, and environment; artificial intelligence; animal cognition; mental illness; altered states of consciousness, self-consciousness, and personhood. Offered fall semester, even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
What is knowledge? What is the relation of knower to known? How is knowledge distinguished from belief? What are the nature and grounds of certainty? Varieties of objectivism and subjectivism, ancient and modern, will be considered. Offered winter semester. Fulfills one of the Themes requirements.
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3.00 Credits
A study of representative metaphysical systems and problems through the writings of the classical, medieval, modern, and recent periods. Topics include being, substance, causation, essence, matter, form, space, time, relation, etc. Some attention to non-Western metaphysical thought. Offered fall semester, odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
This course is dedicated to some of the most fundamental questions about value: What is value? Where does it come from? How many kinds of it are there? What are the relationships between the different kinds of value? Readings will be drawn from classical and contemporary philosophical literature. Offered winter semester, odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A survey course in the philosophy of language. Topics include theories of meaning, truth, and reference; meaning and interpretation; semantics vs. pragmatics; speech acts; language and thought; and knowledge of language. Offered winter semester of even-numbered years.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
According to the needs of the students, seminars in historical and systematic studies in areas, philosophers, and movements, of which the following are examples: Aristotle, Thomas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Hellenistic philosophy, philosophy of history, advanced logic, advanced ethics, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, advanced political philosophy, and philosophy of education.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose is -- by a review of basic presuppositions about knowledge, reality, and value -- to make clear what unites and what separates the main traditions in people's search for wisdom. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisites: Major or minor in philosophy and senior standing.
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Prerequisites: Major or minor in philosophy and senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory course in digital photography without darkroom instruction. Covers camera operation and use, basic image processing, composition and visual communication, and artists using the medium. Access to a digital camera with manual control options is required. Cell phone cameras or point-and-shoot cameras without exposure controls are not adequate. Fulfills Foundations - Arts. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course in the use of the still camera and in the essentials of black-and-white darkroom photography. Emphasis on the basic aesthetics and techniques that underlie photographic communication. Offered every semester. Access to a 35mm film camera, with manual control option, required. Prerequisites: PHO 170.
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Prerequisites: PHO 170.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the origins and developmental phases of photography. Technical innovations will be examined, but emphasis will be on the historical motivations and changing climates of aesthetic intent, philosophical rationale, and visual experimentation in the history of photography from the early 19th century to the present. Offered fall semester.
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